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The Chinese are coming. They’re innovating, building world class goods that will compete well with Western equivalents. So why doesn’t anyone see this coming? Seriously, it’s hard to argue the Chinese haven’t made a cottage industry out of ripping off iconic products. Sometimes it’s as blatant as Swiss watch look-alikes while...

In early July, a team of Dutch engineers won the Amazon Picking Challenge. The international competition honors engineering teams for building robots with human-like dexterity. It’s not tough to see why such robots appeal to Amazon. The company is a recognized leader in the drive for workplace automation -- and that’s a good thinggiven...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Netflix (NFLX) shares were hit hard Tuesday, July 19, plummeting from $90 to $77.58 a share before rebounding to $79.52 by the end of the week. The culprit is slowing growth and that has disastrous future implications. There was a time when Netflix could do no wrong. It switched business models...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.A pair of ex-Google employees believe their version of Blockchain can fix banking. That fix is long overdue.Banking is one of the last parts of the global economy untouched by modern technology. Sure, banks are talking about nifty customer facing technology like iris scans. Some even want to...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Facebook Live changes everything. It’s gripping. It’s real. It’s immediate. And now it looks like it’s ready to kill the last remaining stronghold of network television. Philandro Castille, his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds and her small daughter were pulled over in the afternoon on...

Sadly, Tesla owner Joshua Brown was killed last week when his vehicles collided with tractor trailer. At the time the car was being guided by Autopilot, a smart, assisted driving system. This was the first fatality of its kind.The immediate response was shock. Despite healthy public skepticism, the idea of safer assisted and ultimately...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.The panic among publishers is palpable. Facebook (FB) is tweaking its Newsfeed algorithm again – elevating posts from friends and family at the expense of all else. This is not the first time Facebook has made changes to its algorithm. Two years ago the social network noticed Facebookers...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Amazon (AMZN) is getting back into mobile phones. The company announced an experiment to subsidize two low-cost Android phones. This is not the first time Amazon’s tackled mobile. In 2014 it unveiled the Fire phone, a high-end smartphone with a heavily skinned version of Android,...